Recently I sat in a presentation with some executives who were sharing best practices for tech companies when dealing with China and the world generally. These were companies that had great success at home and abroad but not surprisingly found China a more difficult market to tackle. Here are some of their tips, along with
Last week a relatively large company emailed me to ask what our law firm charges for “template Thailand and Vietnam Manufacturing Agreements.” A few hours later, I got the same request from a different company for Mexico. In response to these emails, I explained why we never do “template” manufacturing agreements anywhere in the world
عندما يلجأ عملاؤنا من أصحاب العمل إلينا للحصول على المشورة بشأن تعيين موظفين جدد في الصين، فإننا ننصحهم عادةً (ولكن ليس دائمًا) باستخدام مدة محددة مبدئيًا مدتها ثلاث سنوات. كما نوصيهم بأن يدرسوا، قبل انتهاء مدة التوظيف الأولية، إمكانية تمديد عقد الموظف لفترة توظيف ثانية.
Contract manufacturing is fundamentally the purchase of a product. For any product purchase, the key terms are price, quantity and delivery date. And yet many buyers treat these key term as secondary issues. As buyers focus on exciting issues like product design and "getting to market", buyers frequently fall into a trap. They assume that price, quantity and delivery terms will never be an issue. When these issues arise, as they virtually always do, the product buyer is in a situation where it has little to no room to negotiate. The overseas factory is now in control, and then it springs the price trap.
Omicron is incredibly contagious and China is not well-equipped to slow it down to the same extent it has done with previous COVID variants. Omicron will likely lead to shutdowns of China's factories and convince more foreign product buying companies to diversify out of China.
China's online gaming market is the largest in the world in terms of revenue, but its online gaming laws, market access restrictions, and censorship make it difficult for non-Chinese developers to sell their online games into China. This post sets out the basics on what it takes for foreign companies to get their online games into China.
في نهاية كل سنة تقويمية، تبدأ العديد من المنظمات غير الربحية، بما في ذلك المنظمات غير الربحية في الصين، في الظهور بشكل متكرر على رادار الجميع. وقد قدمتُ مؤخرًا المشورة لمنظمة غير ربحية كانت ترغب في تأسيس عمليات لها في الصين بطريقة ما. ومن الناحية الفنية، فهي منظمة أمريكية غير ربحية (501(c)(6))، وليست منظمة خيرية غير ربحية من فئة 501(c)(3)، لكنني أستخدم
My goal with this talk was never to explain the laws in various countries so that they could handle all of their clients' foreign legal matters. More than anything, my goal was to get the lawyers in the audience to (with apologies to Apple and to grammarians everywhere) think different. I wanted to get the lawyers in the room (and I mean this literally, these talks being pre-COVID) uncomfortable about representing companies on foreign legal matters. I wanted their discomfort to get them not to lazily assume things.
لا توجد حلول موحدة تناسب جميع حالات بنود تسوية المنازعات في الصين، لأنها تعتمد على العديد من العوامل، بما في ذلك موقع الشركة الصينية داخل الصين، وطبيعة المعاملة، وأهداف الأطراف، والمسائل التي من المرجح أن تنشأ عنها المنازعات، وأهم هذه المسائل، ونوعها، ولغات الوثائق والشهود المحتملين، والقانون الذي يحكم العقد، ومجموعة كبيرة من المسائل الأخرى.
It should go without saying that international product manufacturing costs are key for nearly all companies that manufacture in or secure their products from a foreign country. Most companies that manufacture in China would love to move their manufacturing out of China. But doing so is difficult for nearly all, and impossible for many. Product manufacturing costs are a huge factor in choosing a location for product manufacturing or outsourcing. Over the last year, I have had probably more conversations about where companies should manufacture their products than in the prior five years combined. And those conversations have reminded me that many companies have too narrow a definition of product costs.
